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The information package and application form(s) for the 2013-2014 Level 4 cycle are now available. Gymnastics Canada will be using the 2013-2014 Level 4 cycle to pilot the ‘Competition Development Advanced Gradation’ NCCP context in MAG, WAG, RG and TG. A maximum of 32 coaches will be accepted into the program.

Application deadline: February 28, 2013

First course of cycle: May 26-June 1, 2013 (Ottawa area immediately following the Canadian Championships)

BC Gymnastics

John Smith at NASA Gymnastics, Washington.

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Rewriting Russian Gymnastics:

Lupita translates here the first interview of any significance with Evgeny Grebionkin, newly appointed senior coach of the Russian WAG team. The article appears on the press website of the Russian Ministry of Sport. …

Evgeny Grebenkin: we cannot replace the current members of our team

The up-and-coming girls are not strong enough yet to replace the current Senior team.

Russia will try to win the World University Games in Kazan, July 6-17 2013.

related – Cirque du Soleil will perform there

Rec Gymnastics linked to this lovely bit of art. 🙂

LIKE on the Nanaimo Gymnastics Facebook.

(via Gymnastics BC on Facebook)

I enjoy posts that combine a list of news stories. Examiner – gymnastics week in review, for example.

Bernardo Abdo and Lyn Green contribute to the Facebook Gymfever page.

They now have a page where contributors can add news stories as they appear online. By the end of the week, it should be a pretty good summary.

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Gymfever February Weekly Gymnastics Newsletter

I assume that’s Public. Facebook deliberately makes it difficult to tell.

UPDATE: To see the page you’d need to request friendship with Sere Powell first. AND be crazy crazy about gymnastics.

related – Triple Twist – January News Roundup

Dogs are for real.

No. 8 Georgia used a season-high score to hand No. 5 Alabama its first loss of the season 197.500-196.950 on Saturday at Stegeman Coliseum.

Senior Noel Couch competed in her first meet of the season after missing the first five due to injury. Couch put up 9.875s on both beam and floor to help the Gym Dogs secure the victory against the Crimson Tide.

“It was absolutely a great performance by our team,” head coach Danna Durante said …

NCAA

PHOTO GALLERY: Georgia Gymnastics Versus Alabama

… “I was kind of blown away,” freshman Brittany Rogers said. “We didn’t do anything special. That’s what we’re capable of, and it’s really satisfying knowing we did what we do everyday and still produced that score.” …

Red & Black

Gerard Atzeni updated his montage.

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1. Mark Sohn (USA) – 1/1 Kehr mount
2. Koji Yamamuro (JPN) – Honma + 1/4 to long hang
3. Steven Legendre (USA) – Double Front + Front Double Twist
4. Kelly Lang (USA) – the ‘Lang’ I & II
5. Miguel Rubio (ESP) – Full Ono to one-armed giant + Immediate Jaeger
6. Shou Yokoyama (JPN) – Kip to V-Sit
7. Ahmed Al Dayani (QAT) – Tippelt Half to Upperarm
8. Ross Bradley (USA) – Stalder with 2/1 pirouette
9. Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) – O’Neill
10. Ryan McCarthy (USA) – Front Uprise Layout 1/1 to upperarms
11. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Back 7/2 + Front 1/1
12. Daisuke Nakano (JPN) – Triple Back [tucked] – Rings
13. Chen Chen (CHN) – G Flop [Stokli + Stokli + 1080 wende]
14. Ryan Lieberman (USA) – Felge Makuts
15. Jesus Carballo Jr. (ESP) – Carballo I
16. Sean Doolan (USA) – Front Triple Twist + Front Salto
17. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Back 5/2 + Front 2/1
18. Kohei Uchimura (JPN) – Double Twisting Kovacs Attempt – 2008/2009
19. Makoto Okiguchi (JPN) – Lou Yun + Front 1 3/4
20. Vladimir Novikov (USSR) – Front Uprise to V-Sit
21. Giovanni Quintero (COL) – Belle with 1/1 to upperarm hang
22. Evgeni Sapronenko (LAT) – Dorsal Giants + Immediate Gienger
23. Alberto Busnari (ITA) – DSA Handstand with 720 Travel to Flairs
24. Danny Rodrigues (FRA) – Azarian to Maltese + Front Uprise V-Cross
25. Max Whitlock (GBR) – Forward Salto with 5/2 Twists – Rings
26. Sam Oldham (GBR) – Back Double Twist off Parallel Bars
27. Flavius Koczi (ROU) – Back 5/2 + Front 5/2 [attempt]
28. Jeff Crockett (USA) – Double Twisting Balabanov
29. Ri Se Gwang (PRK) – Full Twisting Double Tsukahara
30. Ryosuke Baba (JPN) – Stoop 1/2 + Kolman
31. Cyril Tommasone (FRA) – Li Ning + Back Scissor to Handstand
32. Huang Yuguo (CHN) – Front 2/1 + Van Roon
33. Ji Lianshen (CHN) – Stalder 1/1 to el-grip + Balabanov
34. Kohei Uchimura (JPN) – Stoop 1/2 + Liukin
35. Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS) – Spindle Magyar between Pommels
36. Hikaru Tanaka (JPN) – Kasamatsu Stretched to Roll Out – Floor
37. Paul Ruggeri (USA) – Uprise 1 1/4 Straddle Front to upperarms
38. Matthieu Jordan (FRA) – Triple Back Salto Piked – Floor
39. Matteo Morandi (ITA) – Marinich to Feet
40. Jeff Bender (USA) – Back Uprise with Counter Salto
41. Tim McNeil (USA) – Bezugo on a Single Pommel + [flop series]
42. Tomi Tuuha (FIN) – Double Back with 5/2 Twists – Rings
43. Lee Joo Huang (KOR) – Healy to Mix Grip [single rail] + Jaeger transfer
44. ??? (JPN) – Full Twisting Triple Back Somersault – High Bar
45. Kelly Lang (USA) – Suarez – High Bar
46. DJ Bucher (USA) – Layout Belle – Parallel Bars
47. Matthias Fahrig (GER) – Arabian Double Pike with 3/2 Twists
48. Glen Ishino (USA) – Triple Layout – High Bar
49. Epke Zonderland (NED) – Diamidov 1/4 + Healy
50. Shirai Kenzo (JPN) – Quadruple Twist
51. Doug Stibel (USA) – Guzcoghy with 1/2 Twist
52. Steven Legendre (USA) – High Rybalko
53. Guillermo Alvarez (USA) – Front Layout with 3/2 Twists – High Bar
54. Matthew McGrath (USA) – Back 3/2 + Marinich
55. Epke Zonderland (NED) – Cassina + Kolman
56. Ian Makowske (USA) – Stoop Hop with 1/1 Pirouette to mixed-grip
57. Regulo Carmona (VEN) – Momentary Back Lever to Inverted Cross
58. Daniel Keatings (GBR) – Chiarlo + E Healy + Healy
59. Yang Hak Seon (KOR) – Handspring Front Layout 3/1 Twist
60. Vladimir Gogoladze (USSR) – Straddled Healy – Parallel Bars
61. Li Xiaopeng (CHN) – Forward Uprise with Double Pike to upperarm
62. Timo Niemela (FIN) – Double Kovacs [attempt]

… You get to see a lot of athletes and a lot of the joyous occasions – stuck landings, gymnasts pleased with scores, and teams celebrating.

Arabian Punch Front – Montage Monday: Inspiration

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David Holcomb linked to this bizarre image — “Gymnast Nixon”, drawn by Robert B Davis, published in Modern Gymnast magazine January 1971 to accompany an article titled, “The Dreamer”.

Here’s Tricky Dicky with the Soviet Women’s Gymnastics Team in 1973. That’s Olga Korbut next to the President.

Beam Queen linked to this magazine cover. The 1996 Olympic Champion‘s family.

… December 2004, Podkopayeva married to Ukrainian businessman. Timofei Nagorny. They are the parents of two children: Vadim, adopted in Ukraine in July 2006; and Karolina, born in November of the same year. However, as of 2009, Lilia has divorced Timofei and the two share custody of their children. …